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Date of source: Monday, December 13, 2004
Amidst a religious crisis that is still taking its toll on the country due to the announced conversion of a Coptic priest’s wife, a member of Parliament said the Egyptian parliament is to debate the reported sectarian incidents in the governorates of Al-Beheira and Assiut.
Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2002
A Muslim woman who converted to Christianity expressed the author her wish to tell her story to all people. Sidhom told her that people who make their conversion stories public face hard time. However, since the state-owned Nile TV channel started to broadcast a program presenting cases of people...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Muhammad ‘Abd al-Hādī discusses the history of religious conversion in Egypt.
Date of source: Monday, February 6, 2006
Ibrāhim ‘Abd al-Shahīd Sidhum was sentenced to death over the alleged murder of his wife and a microbus driver after his reported voluntarily conversion to Islam. Three years after the verdict had been given, and a few weeks before the implementation of the death penalty, a video was found showing...
Date of source: Thursday, January 26, 2006
He supports the freedom of religion as an assertion to Allāh’s instructions: a man needs not register his conviction, adding that this principle represented the spirit of Islam.
Date of source: Monday, December 12, 2005
Legal battles between Shaykh Yousuf al-Badrī and human rights activists continue over the case of the priest’s wife, Wafā’ Costantine, who converted to Islam.
Date of source: Monday, November 28, 2005
The unprecedented success of the Muslim Brotherhood in the recent parliamentary elections has raised fears among many Copts, including Pope Shenouda III and a number of prominent thinkers.
Date of source: Friday, November 18, 2005
Egyptian actor ‘Umar al-Sharīf has denied receiving death threats from al-Qā‘ida over his role as Saint Peter in an Italian biblical epic for television. He also seeks to dispel misconceptions about his religion before his conversion to Islam.
Date of source: Monday, October 10, 2005
The church is required to offer an explanation for the anti-Islamic play in Alexandria, and Pope Shenouda has to show good faith in the future of Egypt.
Date of source: Thursday, October 6, 2005
The author wonders why the play, which he states was highly insulting to Islam, was made and hopes that this play does not mark the beginning of yet another round of sectarian strife.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.